Our new weekly health show, Second Opinion With Dr. Ebony Jade Hilton, is LIVE now on the Black Star Network www.youtube.com/live/1p_SXSz... #SecondOpinion

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”

Bowing down to a bully never works.

And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

Toronto!

@willpotter.bsky.social will discuss his new book LITTLE RED BARNS at Type Books on Thursday, Sept 25 at 7:30pm!

Join @willpotter.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social this Friday, Sept 12th, 7pm, when he discusses his latest, "LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable" with Abby Martin of the The Empire Files !
A powerful exposé of the forces at work to mask the harms of industrial agriculture.

TONIGHT! What a wild week for an event like this. I don’t have the answers, but looking forward to this convo with Abby Martin at Powell's downtown, 7pm

Prosecutors’ ‘Cop City’ case collapses as judge tosses Rico conspiracy charges Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure

Pol. sci. @josephmbrown.bsky.social: "Georgia pol's tried to fix a legitimacy problem by indicting their critics. [But] even to abuse the law, you have to read it first. They didn’t.":
@danimmergluck.bsky.social @marisapk.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social
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TRUMP TAX-RATE CUT SAVINGS TOTAL ORDINARY INCOME (2018-24)Executives Corporate Allegiance James Dimon JPMorgan Chase $12,688,508 $486,787,121 Brian T. Moynihan Bank of America $5,101,815 $194,991,245 Jane Fraser Citigroup $2,565,491 $97,440,296 David Solomon Goldman Sachs $5,543,211 $211,968,014 Charles W. Scharf Wells Fargo $3,197,516 $121,932,212 Edward Pick Morgan Stanley $4,161,864 $159,201,521 Richard D. Fairbank Capital One $7,308,157 $279,850,552 Andrew Cecere U.S. Bancorp $2,687,811 $102,144,906 William S. Demchak PNC Financial $3,514,339 $133,934,457 William H. Rogers Truist Financial $1,801,793 $68,250,541 Walter W. Bettinger II Charles Schwab $4,327,408 $165,206,328 Robin Vince New York Mellon $1,040,503 $39,149,195

Does anyone have any idea why Jamie Dimon needed another $12 million tax break so bad that we had to cut Medicaid to do it?

I'm genuinely asking.

Trump's loss just teed up Supreme Court for 'huge ruling': experts Legal experts weighed in Monday night after a federal appeals court dealt President Donald Trump a major loss in his high-profile firing of a Federal Reserve official who was ousted over dubious mortgage fraud claims. Lisa Cook was fired by Trump from her position as a Federal Reserve governor based...

Legal experts weighed in Monday night after a federal appeals court dealt

'It's absolutely a concern': CNN analyst warns Trump may outlaw the Democratic party A Democratic political analyst expressed concern on Monday night that President Donald Trump's administration could move to outlaw the Democratic Party after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Jamal Simmons, a CNN political commentator, joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source" to ...

A Democratic political analyst expressed concern on Monday night that President Donald Trump's administration could move to outlaw the Democratic Party after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

How Donald Trump is making America politically violent again The assassination of ultra-right, racist influencer Charlie Kirk may not have been the “shot heard around the world.” But before the videos of his shooting death were taken down, at least 10 million views had been logged on platforms like X, Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram, You Tube, and Truth Social.H...

OPINION: The assassination of ultra-right, racist influencer Charlie Kirk may not have been the "shot heard around the world."

Trump makes midnight announcement of 'stunningly pathological' $15B lawsuit Just before midnight on Monday, Donald Trump jumped onto his Truth Social account and announced a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, a handful of reporters and book publisher Penguin Random House that both stunned and amused legal experts.Trump led off with “Today, I have th...

Trump makes midnight announcement of 'stunningly pathological' $15B lawsuit

FBI investigated Evergreen High School shooter’s social media before attack, failed to identify him The FBI “opened an assessment into a social media account user whose identity was unknown and who was discussing the planning of a mass shooting with threats non-specific in nature.”

Kash Patel's FBI investigated the Colorado school shooter before the attack. But did nothing

www.denverpost.com/2025/09/15/c...

Excerpt: Hunt’s team has said Boring’s Buffalo Bayou project would cost $760 million, according to internal communications obtained by the newsrooms through public records requests.

ProPublica: Elon Musk Pushed Back on Our Reporting on His Houston Tunnels Plan. Experts Say His Comments Are Misleading. https://www.propublica.org/article/fact-checking-elon-musk-response-boring-houston-tunnels

Excerpt: Hunt’s team has said Boring’s Buffalo Bayou project would cost $760 million, according to internal communications obtained by the newsrooms through public records requests.

Gizmodo: Elon Musk’s Comments on Houston Flood Tunnels Are Misleading, Experts Say https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-comments-on-houston-flood-tunnels-are-misleading-experts-say-2000658393

Excerpt: But earlier this summer, after The Intercept filed a public records lawsuit for documents about TRAC, Mayes took steps to limit Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ access to the database, her office disclosed to The Intercept.

Excerpt: Along with hundreds of other ICE agents, Corley’s name appears on a list of registered TRAC users from 2018, along with an ICE email address registered to Corley, who did not reply to The Intercept’s questions. The Intercept obtained the list of TRAC users from a public records request to Mayes’s office, which is currently fighting The Intercept’s lawsuit for additional records about the relationship between the state agency and TRAC.

The Intercept: Many ICE Agents Lose Ability to Spy on Immigrants’ Payments to Family Back Home https://theintercept.com/2025/09/15/ice-deport-wire-transfer-surveillance-trac/

Excerpt: Individuals within the UC community and faculty groups across the system have asked UC to release the government’s full settlement proposal. As a public institution, UC is required under state law to share a wide range of information upon request. But it has declined public records requests to release the proposal, citing pending settlement and potential litigation matters.

Excerpt: On Monday, a coalition of faculty association groups from the 10 campuses, including UCLA, made a court filing in an attempt to force UC to share the proposal. The filing, in state court in Alameda County, alleged that the university is violating the California Public Records Act.

LA Times: It's not just UCLA. UC president warns of Trump push into all campuses and hospitals https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-15/uc-univeristy-of-california-trump-campus-investigations

FBI and DOJ being 'politicized' in way 'we've never seen in modern history': Dilanian The FBI is searching the home and office of former National Security Adviser John Bolton as part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records,” according to a source familiar ...

FBI and DOJ being 'politicized' in way 'we've never seen in modern history': @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social
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True North Issues New Primer on the Authoritarian Infrastructure in the U.S. — By Lisa Graves and Alyssa Bowen A partisan Supreme Court, a complicit political party, and an ongoing assault on key pillars of civil society are some of the factors contributing to the rise of author...

Check out True North’s new primer designed to

provide a basic orientation to the major strands inside and outside of government seeking to establish and entrench authoritarian governance ❌

and what we can do to counter them 💪

truenorthresearch.org/2025/07/true...

Trump’s latest executive order creates new classification of federal employees President Trump penned a new executive order on Thursday to form a new classification of noncareer federal employees who will be hired to “help faithfully implement the President’s policy agenda.”&…

Making Patronage Great Again. Is this good for the country?

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Drop the Epstein stuff or he's coming for you MAGA

Truth

From our first interview to our last, Raúl Grijalva was unapologetically himself. More than two decades in Washington didn’t change that. I will always appreciate his kindness and his candor. He will be missed. My thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.

BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts issues a rare statement:

"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."

NEWS: Adelita Grijalva announces she will run for Congress in Arizona’s CD-7, the seat held by late father, Raúl, for 22 years.

The primary is set for July 15. The general in this special election will take place on September 23.

About Mail-In ballots…

#Arizona has had voting by mail in every election since 1992. It is safe and secure. It was first championed by Republicans in this state.

Nearly 90% of AZ voters cast an early ballot in the 2020 general election. Nearly 75% cast an early ballot in 2024.

Whistleblower Warns of Possible Risks to Americans’ Social Security Information Today, Government Accountability Project submitted a protected whistleblower disclosure to the Office of Special Counsel and congressional committees with grave allegations of data security lapses tha...

Chief Data Officer at SSA says that DOGE is putting Americans' social security data at risk, including that DOGE officials created a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight

whistleblower.org/press-releas...

Government workers are ‘canary in coalmine’ for Trump bid to gut union rights, leaders warn Administration has stripped hundreds of thousands of their union contracts as White House says it is just getting started

I spoke with workers at the VA and EPA about the Trump administration gutting union contracts as part of their broad attack on workers' rights and labor unions
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